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Azukaego Chukwuelue
Supply Chain Director of Kimberly Clark, NigeriaAzukaego will be a Keynote Speaker and her talk is titled: Africa's readiness for the inevitable future - Processes, systems, organizational, behavioral & cultural integration
Bio:
Azukaego Chukwuelue is a certified professional, with a wealth of commercial experience spanning two decades in West, East and Central Africa. She currently works as the Supply Chain Director at Kimberly-Clark Nigeria, where she is responsible for the Supply network and operational accountability in line with strategic business goals.
Over the course of her 20-year career, which saw her work in Cadbury and Pfizer (later Neimeth), she has gained versatility and depth working across different field, including Sales & Marketing as well as Supply Chain. Her passion for transformative leadership and the ability to harness team power earned her several recognitions, including Leadership Imperative Award for Ownership and Accountability and AMEA Recognition for supportive team in Cadbury. Recently, she was named among the 100 females professionals in 20 industries advancing excellence and professionalism in Nigeria's corporate sector.
Beyond her work she mentors young women, through Truss Empowerment Foundation, a nonprofit that runs an internship program for young minds, aimed at getting them ready for professional and business growth via a simulated MBA course content and actual problem-solving-based learning for managing complex Supply Chains and learning team dynamics and skills.
Sonja Blignaut
Managing Director of More BeyondSonja will be a Keynote Speaker. She is an internationally recognised expert in the field of complexity. She is passionate about partnering with leaders, teams and organisations to become complexity fit and find their way in uncertainty. Sonja is the managing director of More Beyond, and a founding member of Sensemaking Partners, an international network of complexity theorists and practitioners.
Lerato Mogoatlhe
Founder of Johari AfricaLerato will be a Keynote Speaker and her talk is titled: Lessons from my travels around Africa
Bio:
Lerato Mogoatlhe is a travel and editorial entrepreneur, journalist and the author of the best-selling travel memoir, Vagabond: wandering through Africa on faith. She started her career as a journalist, working in various roles at some of Africa’s leading media companies before quitting her life and job in South Africa in 2008 to live her dream of travelling Africa to document home and shift stereotypical narratives. She publishes www.vagabond.Africa and also curates immersive group trips inspired by her travel memoir.
Grant Christie
Director of Itchyfeet SAGrant will be a Keynote Speaker at the Gala dinner. He is a man with a (possibly unhealthy) obsession with walking. He is that friend who always says, “We don’t need an uber, we can just walk.” In fact, his escape plan from his civil engineering career was to walk the entire coastline of South Africa. Grant has always been an avid sportsman and a nature enthusiast, but it was this eight month, 3 500 km expedition that served as his springboard into the outdoor world. After his coastal expedition Grant worked at an adventure centre for a year before moving into the freelance space. He has led school expeditions and corporate challenges around the globe. Locally Grant guides mountain and nature trips and facilitates school Journeys. Most recently Grant completed a 500km fundraising walk around the Greater Kruger and Panorama route during the 2020 lockdown. This year Grant has joined local guiding and tour operator Itchyfeet SA as a co-director. When Grant is not walking or planning walks he takes photographs, writes the odd feature article, chases birds, stares at stars, and strums his guitar.
John Doran
Go4Gr8 Asset SevicesJohn Doran will be presenting a 3-hour Workshop titled: Leading for success in a Technically Based Business World: "Soft Skills for Tech'-Spec's"
Benefits of attending this Workshop:
Delegates attending will be exposed to learnings around understanding of the importance of softer skills in, and through Applied Leadership, understanding the difference between management and leadership and how, whilst quite different there is an interdependence, causes of mistrust in organisations, characteristics of people that inspire, how genuine leaders earn trust and respect, the “Cornerstone Conduct of Real Leaders”, looking at what Organisational Culture comprises of, understanding the importance of Organisational Culture in organisational performance, Culture and Strategy, Types of Organisational Culture, Culture and Motivation, Application of Power, elements making up Organisational Culture, Value(s) Based Leadership, the Four H’s of Leadership, the Trust Matrix, Coveys 4 Cores of Credibility™, Barrett’s Seven Levels of Leadership model, Barrett’s Seven Levels of Consciousness, Values, Culture and Motivation, Dysons Leadership Mirror, High Performance Leadership, Leading Successful Change, the Environment in which Change Occurs, The Challenge of Change, Change as a Journey, Appreciative Inquiry (AI), Tenets of Successful Change, integrating with current protocols in effecting change that is sustainable: i.e. that “sticks”, and Engaging Corporate Culture?
Bio:
A professionally Certified Mechanical Engineer and Technologist John also holds post graduate qualifications in Leadership, Asset Management and Training & Assessment. He offers extensive experience in leading service delivery, operations and maintenance activities and optimising asset contribution to business outcomes in large multi-facetted infrastructure and asset intensive businesses. Optimising asset performance has always been a primary focus and he has been able to apply this in leading operations and asset management on multi-billion dollar projects. John has led small specialised technical teams as well as large operational teams. He considers leadership as a critical operational and business success factor. His focus on optimising asset contribution to levels of service is born out of experience and single-point accountability based on integrating asset performance with business drivers and facilitating informed decision making. His work on asset whole-of-life performance resulted from being the “operator” and recipient of infrastructure, commissioned and handed over from the design and construct teams. This frequently resulted in what has been defined as “Value Leakage” and led him to deeper involvement in driving a more holistic approach to managing assets across all lifecycle phases, based on total lifecycle performance and cost of ownership. John now leads training courses across the globe and has published professional papers on Leadership, Service Levels, Asset Management, Leading Successful Change and Outsourcing/Privatisation of Public Sector Assets. His technical and leadership competence with many years of mentoring provides opportunity for imparting knowledge and capabilities to others.
Estie Boshoff
Data Management Consultant at Altron Systems IntegrationEstie will be one of three presenters presenting a 3-hour Workshop titled: Messy to Ready: trust your data again!
Benefits of attending this Workshop:
1) Preparing data for analytics is hard, learn the recipe for getting your data ready for analysis and data science
2) Learn to transform any dataset from messy to ready that can be used to extract insights
3) Learn about truth before meaning and the role of ethics in data management
Requirements to attend this Workshop:
Delegates would need laptops with Excel and PowerBI pre-installed
Bio:
Estie Boshoff is a professionally registered Industrial Engineer with ECSA and works in the Data Management space, where she sees a need for more Industrial Engineering thinking, participation and contribution.
Howard Diesel
President at DAMAHoward is one of three presenters who will be presenting a 3-hour Workshop titled: Messy to Ready: trust your data again!
Benefits of attending this Workshop:
1) Preparing data for analytics is hard, learn the recipe for getting your data ready for analysis and data science
2) Learn to transform any dataset from messy to ready that can be used to extract insights
3) Learn about truth before meaning and the role of ethics in data management
Requirements to attend this Workshop:
Delegates would need laptops with Excel and PowerBI pre-installed
Bio:
Howard Diesel is the current President of DAMA Southern Africa with a passion to equip Africa with Data Management skills and uplift careers.
Paul Grobler
Data Management and Software Development Professional at dataGambitPaul will be one of three presenters presenting a 3-hour Workshop titled: Messy to Ready: trust your data again!
Benefits of attending this Workshop:
1) Preparing data for analytics is hard, learn the recipe for getting your data ready for analysis and data science
2) Learn to transform any dataset from messy to ready that can be used to extract insights
3) Learn about truth before meaning and the role of ethics in data management
Requirements to attend this Workshop:
Delegates would need laptops with Excel and PowerBI pre-installed
Bio:
Paul Grobler is the founder of dataGambit and he is a Data Management and Software Development professional who has been practising in the Financial, Retail, Health, Telecommunications and Social Upliftment industries for over 20 years.
Handré Dreyer
Solution Manager at SETECHandré will be presenting a 3-hour Workshop titled: Introduction to Advanced Planning and Scheduling using Simio.
Benefits of attending this Workshop:
Learn about Advanced Planning and Scheduling using Simio
Understand the role a simulation based scheduling model plays and the core benefits of it
Understand how this approach differs from deterministic approaches
Understand the role and application of a digital twin
Learn how to use Simio to create next generation scheduling solutions
Attendees must have their own laptops. Simio Software will be installed.
Bio:
Handré Dreyer is a senior project manager specializing in simulation, scheduling and warehouse optimisation consulting. Handré is a business improvement expert with 12+ years of simulation, consulting and training experience.
Kem Ramdass
Associate Professor at UNISAKem is one of three presenters who will be presenting a 3-hour Workshop titled: Exploring the Space for entrepreneurial engineers for the future
Benefits of attending this Workshop:
Exploring the space for entrepreneurial engineers for the future.
Discovering the future of Industrial Engineering.
Bio:
Prof. Kem Ramdass spent his childhood in a small town called Verulam on the Kwa-Zulu Natal North coast. He matriculated in 1980 with a matriculation exemption and immediately started his working career as a Work Study Officer at Ninian and Lester in Durban. As he progressed in his working life to Senior Work Study Officer, Head of Industrial Engineering, Spinning Mill Manager and eventually Training Officer at the Clothing Industry Training Board, he simultaneously managed to complete his academic qualifications from a National Diploma in Organisation and Work Study to a D.Phil in Engineering Management at the University of Johannesburg through part time studies. He graduated in 2017 with a Post Graduate Diploma in Higher Education through Rhodes University. He is Associate Chair in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of South Africa responsible for external affairs. He has a passion for process improvement using all the tools of industrial engineering, quality and operations management. He has over 45 articles in conferences and accredited journals and is a distinguished author of a textbook called Operations Management. He has ECSA certification as a Professional Engineering Technologist and is Associate Professor at Unisa.
Kgabo Mokgohloa
Lecturer and Associate Chair: Research and Innovation at UNISAKgabo is one of three presenters who will be presenting a Workshop titled: Exploring the Space for entrepreneurial engineers for the future
Benefits of attending this Workshop:
Exploring the space for entrepreneurial engineers for the future.
Discovering the future of Industrial Engineering.
Bio:
Kgabo Mokgohloa is a proactive, solution and output driven and dynamic professional with considerable process engineering, project engineering, programme, and facilitation experience acquired in research & development, manufacturing, and service fields. An innovative strategist and tactician capable of directing successful initiatives aimed at achieving positive outcomes in accordance with requirements and expectations. Possesses exceptional interpersonal and group dynamics skills used to great effect in overcoming initial resistance to change, influencing decisions and forging strategy alliances nationally and internationally. A motivational and inspirational leader who thrives in highly pressurised and challenging working environments, with exceptional conceptual, analytical, lateral thinking, negotiation, persuasion, strategic thinking skills and thrives on setting goals and reaching goals.
A facilitator, researcher, author and process engineer who is passionate about learning and impartation of knowledge to those who can benefit from it, a seasoned professional with zeal for human development, with deep interest in “changing landscapes” ushered by of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), lean engineering/thinking, sustainability of Planet Earth, Value Engineering, Thinking Systems (TS) and firm advocate for a culture of continuous improvement.
He holds various technical qualifications in Chemical Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Environmental Engineering and is currently pursuing a PhD in Science, Engineering and Technology with a topic “System Dynamics Approach to Technology Adoption in the postal sector in Southern Africa”.
Barnes Sookdeo
Associate Professor at UNISABarnes is one of three presenters who will be presenting a Workshop titled: Exploring the Space for entrepreneurial engineers for the future
Benefits of attending this Workshop:
Exploring the space for entrepreneurial engineers for the future.
Discovering the future of Industrial Engineering.
Bio:
Barnes Sookdeo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Operations Management at UNISA.
His research focus areas include Work-study, Lean Manufacturing, Productivity, Ergonomics, Quality and Operations Management. Prior to joining academia, Barnes spent 16 years in industry specialising in the field of Work Study and Industrial Engineering. His expertise lies in improving efficiencies, enhancing productivity and improving overall organisational effectiveness. He has a Master’s Degree in Operations Management from the University of Johannesburg and a Doctoral Degree (PhD) in Operational Research from North West University. He has authored several books, published articles in accredited journals and has presented various papers at national and international conferences. He is also an external examiner of theses and dissertations at various universities. He also sits on the Advisory Committees and Peer Review Panels of various universities in SA.
Sydney Theko
Senior Project Manager at SPDC t/a AIDCSydney is one of two presenters who will be presenting a 3-hour Workshop titled: Standardised Work
Benefits of attending this Workshop:
This practical training will impart knowledge to the attending delegates on how to implement standardised work, in order to support the achievement of the safety; quality and efficiencies required to build the products to the customer’s satisfaction.
The implementation of standardised work assists to:
1) Confirm the production method – This assists in achieving high quality as it ensures that the process is conducted the same way even when different people are carrying out this process.
2) Allocate full work load – It ensures that each one of the operators is utilized to the optimal level.
3) Identify Kaizens – It helps to bring out abnormalities and therefore institutes the need to carry out Kaizen activities.
Bio:
Sydney Theko has been in the Automotive Industry for over 20 years where he accumulated extensive experience in Industrial, Process and Project Engineering. He began his career at Robert Bosch where he led several layout and work study related improvements. He worked for companies such as Robert Bosch as Junior Industrial Engineer, Mercedes-Benz as Industrial Engineer responsible for the Bodyshop area and the plant productivity, Volkswagen SA as Project Process Engineer for the launch of the VW250 Polo, Ford Motor Company as Manufacturing Launch Engineer for the launch of the T6 Ford Ranger. Sydney is currently working for the Automotive Industry Development Centre as a Senior Project manager. He studied National Diploma at Wits Technikon, B-Tech in Industrial Engineering at UNISA. Sydney Has a Masters in Industrial Engineering obtained through Tshwane University of Technology.
Jan Muller
Project Manager at AIDCJan is one of two presenters who will be presenting a 3-hour Workshop titled: Standardised Work
Benefits of attending this Workshop:
This practical training will impart knowledge to the attending delegates on how to implement standardised work, in order to support the achievement of the safety; quality and efficiencies required to build the products to the customer’s satisfaction.
The implementation of standardised work assists to:
1) Confirm the production method – This assists in achieving high quality as it ensures that the process is conducted the same way even when different people are carrying out this process.
2) Allocate full work load – It ensures that each one of the operators is utilized to the optimal level.
3) Identify Kaizens – It helps to bring out abnormalities and therefore institutes the need to carry out Kaizen activities.
Bio:
Ebert Otto
Managing Director of iSolventsEbert will be presenting a 3-hour Workshop titled: Productivity Management in a multidimensional hospitality environment
Summary of content and benefits of attending this Workshop:
Present a novel methodology. Total Productivity Management (TPMan) framework for application in the service environment with specific focus on a resort type enterprise in the hospitality environment. The framework is built on the foundations adapted from the Total Productivity Maintenance (TPM) methodology which aims to prevent breakdown and stoppage through preventative maintenance planning which builds 8 pillars on the 5S foundation. The TPMan framework substitutes equipment with employees and maintenance with management. This workshop shows the benefit of adopting a proven manufacturing methodology toward continuous improvement to be employed in the service industry, specifically the hospitality environment. Attendees will also benefit through gaining insight into the anomalies within the hospitality environment. Experience a new way of motivating and measuring staff in a complex hospitality environment.